PPTL BloggersTake Action!There are several updates, but we need to give specific attention and request action on a new bill SSB 3080 surrounding violence in classrooms. You can find...
PPTL BloggersTakerBy Amber Dismute This is what you do—I wake up and try to find a new day A new reason to feel saved and grateful for what I have Yet you enter in through eve...
PPTL BloggersEviction NoticeBy Amber Dismute Anxiety and Stress got my feeling like a mess Feelings of feeling like I’ll never catch a breath When will you go—I never invited you to sta...
PPTL BloggersSSB 3020 is now SF 2081Senate: SSB 3020 is now SF 2081 and has been added to Senate calendar for Tuesday. Senate File 2081, by committee on Education, a bill for an act relating to...
PPTL BloggersSuicide hotlines on ID cards passes Ed Committee SSB 3020SSB 3020 passed through Senate Education Subcommittee yesterday and passed through Education Committee today. Next, it goes to the Senate floor for debate. ...
jen6255SSB3020 passesThe bill passed subcommittee with changes to make requirement “Your Iowa“ crisis lines and text and language to include 7-12th grade. The request to change t...
PPTL BloggersHouse Releases New Bill HF 2049This bill supports the ISMHA priorities to include suicide prevention hotlines on the back of ID cards as well as expanding the language around the law requi...
PPTL Bloggers 2020 Bills to Watch…Senate Senate Study Bill (SSB) 3020: Subcommittee 1/21/20 3pm An act requiring public schools to include national suicide hotline on the back of student iden...
PPTL Bloggers2020 Legislative SessionWelcome to the 2020 Legislative Session. This will be a place to follow the happenings at the Iowa Capitol during the 2020 session. Updates will typically ...
PPTL BloggersQuiet NO MoreWritten by Jill Youmans April 26th, 1999, was the day I first fell in love. I fell in love deeper than I had ever known was possible. The birth of my first...
PPTL BloggersAll of a sudden-She could breathe again.Trigger warning: Depression and Suicide Written by: Amber Dismutè—OCD, Depression, Anxiety If you are hurting right now this message is for you. It's not eas...
PPTL BloggersYou are More by Madi Rummel*Trigger Warning* Depression, Self-Esteem, Body Image Life is hard and can be especially tough on days when you don’t feel quite enough. For the days you fee...
PPTL BloggersLiving with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder by Ashley Brockman*Trigger Warning* Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Death I was four years old when I saw one boy smack into another at playtime. I saw him later at lunchtime a...
PPTL BloggersLiving with a Borderline Personality Disorder by Becca McDowell*Trigger Warning* Borderline Personality Disorder, Self-Harm, Depression, Suicide Since I can remember, I have struggled with extreme emotions. Whether it be...
PPTL BloggersThe Mask by Madi Rummel*Trigger Warning* Depression She woke up each morning with tear-stained cheeks after crying herself to sleep for weeks. She rolled out of bed and looked in t...
PPTL Bloggers"College is the best four years of your life" by Bailey Caskey*Trigger Warning: Anxiety, Life Changes* I heard this over and over again as I approached freshman move-in day. Sure, I was hopeful that this would be true, ...
PPTL BloggersStay by Madeline Rummel*Trigger Warning* Depression, Suicide Stay for the feeling during your favorite song. Stay for waiting in lines that aren’t long. Stay for the first cup of c...
PPTL BloggersGetting Out of a Rut, by Amber Brockman*Trigger Warning* Suicide, Depression, Self Harm, Emotional Abuse To any who feel stuck in a rut or dark cloud and suffer from depression, I was diagnosed wi...
PPTL BloggersI'm Not Okay, by Ariadna Delgado Ruiz*Trigger Warning* Suicide, Depression I wake up in the morning and it’s hard to get out of bed. Not just hard, but impossible... is it all in my head? Why do...
PPTL BloggersCoping with Anxiety, by Kate Carico*Trigger Warning* Anxiety In the last year I have really suffered with anxiety. As a middle and high school student I had the regular amounts of stress assoc...
